Very Short and Short Answers - Chapter - 5, Three Men in a Boat | English Class 9 PDF Download

VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

Q.1.Do you trust the weather-forecast?
Ans. Yes, I do.

Q.2. What will you do if your brother who sleeps In your room snores at night?
Ans . I’ll shift to another room.

Q.3. Do you like to walk in rain ? Why/Why not?
Ans. Yes, I like to walk in rain because I like to get wet.

Q.4. How will you come to know about the time of departure of a particular train?
Ans. I’ll ring up the official concerned and get the necessary information.

Q.5. Do you read a newspaper daily?
Ans. No

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

Q.1. Why were the writer and Harris angry with George?
Ans.  They were angry with George because he had taken the responsibility of waking them up, but he did not wake them up. Rather, he himself was still asleep and was snoring.

Q.2. How did Harris and the narrator wake George up?
Ans. Harris landed him one with a slipper and the narrator shouted in his ear to wake him up.

Q.3. How did Montmorency disturb the three friends at breakfast?
Ans. Montmorency had invited two other dogs and they whiled away their time by fighting with each other on the doorstep. So the dogs disturbed them. They calmed them with an umbrella and sat down for breakfast.

Q.4.What did the crowd say about them and their lot of luggage?
Ans. One group said it was a wedding pointed Harris as the bridegroom. The other group said that it was a funeral and the narrator was the corpse’s brother.

Q.5. How did they reach Kingston?
Ans. They bribed the engine driver at the railway station and begged him to take them to Kingston. He agreed and they reached Kingston by the London and South-Western Railway.

Q.6 Who wake up the writer?

Ans. Mrs. Poppets, the home keeper woke up the writer.

Q.7 Why the men wake up late?

Ans. Because they had less time to sleep as they slept after 12:30 in the night.

Q.8 How the holiday of writer was ruined?

Ans. His holiday was ruined by his paying attention to the weather report in a local newspaper. The report expected clouds and rain. The writer gave up his picnic, but the forecast proved false.

Q.9 What did the young and giddy crowd assumed?

Ans. Some young and giddy crowd saw them with heavy luggage. They assumed them preparing for a wedding and pointed out Harris as the bridegroom. Some elder people thought it was a funeral and Jim was probably the dead man’s brother.

Q.10 Name the railway by which three friends reached Kingston?

Ans. They reached Kingston by the London and South-Western Railway.

Q.11 What amount was given to engine driver as bribe?

Ans. Half-a-crown was given to the engine driver as bribe.